LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Mail Steamer Pioneer, of Glasgow
Portaskaig, Islay.—During the morning of the llth March the mail steamer Pioneer, of Glasgow, left Portaskaig for West Loch Tarbert. She had mail and twenty-two persons on board. When she was about eight miles east of Macarthur's Head...
Two Naval Speed Boats
MAY 26TH. GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.35 P.M.
a message was received from the Caister alert station that two naval speed boats had gone aground on the Scroby Sand. A light S.S.E.
breeze...
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Category: Advertisement
Daisy
TEN SURVIVORS PICKED UP FROM RAFTS Longhope, and Stronsay, Orkneys. At 3.7 on the afternoon of the 4th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the Stronsay honorary secretary that the motor vessel Daisy of Peterhead had sunk and that her crew...
Special Gifts to the Royal National Life-boat Institution for the Purchase of the following Life-boats
Special Gifts for the Pwehase of the following Life-boats ;- Hornsea, Yorkshire.
Skerries, Co. .Dublin .
Aberystwyth. .
Walmer Seaton Carew . . .
Jfraserburgh . . . .<...
Category: Donations
BLOOMS of Bressingham
Please send me Collection(s) Geraniums 9 £10.95 incl. del.
enclose my cheque/postal order (with address on back) made payable Blooms of Bressingham or please debit the sum of £ .
from my...
Category: Advertisement
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Simon Cooke, a member of Torbay lifeboat crew, unearths an unusual explanation for an unusual service...
Lifeboat crews up and down the coast spend many hours searching for people reported missing , but not many get called...
PERSONAL FLOTATION DEVICES (PFDs)
PROBLEM: A shocking 76% of fishermen who died between 2010 and 2013 weren’t wearing a lifejacket or buoyancy aid – it’s just not common practice on a lot of boats. In many cases, wearing a PFD could have saved the victim’s life.
Category: Articles
The S.S. Eumaeus
DEC. 11TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN, AND WICKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
At 5.5 P.M. messages were received at Dun Laoghaire that a large vessel was aground on the Kish Bank, and that two tugs were...
Lovely Nelly, of Seaham
Ott the 1st January, 1861, the brig Lovely Netty, of Seaham, was driven ashore on Whitley Sands, two miles from Cullercoats, and three miles north of the Tyne. A strong gale was blowing from E.S.E., with a heavy sea and showers of snow and...